- Oct 2018
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mikecosgrave.com mikecosgrave.com
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Or, as computer scientist Donald Knuth puts it, “AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do ‘without thinking.’”
Nice quote
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You know the whole creepy thing that goes on when you search for a product on Amazon and then you see that as a “recommended for you” product on a different site, or when Facebook somehow knows whom it makes sense for you to add as a friend? T
People tend to use the word 'digital' or 'technology' for these things, not AI.
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“immortality”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0bgrw3k
An interesting BBC radio doc about the morality involved in AI. Worth a listen.
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There are three major AI caliber categories:
1) Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) 2) Artificial general intelligence (AGI) 3) Artificial superintelligence (ASI)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0bgrw3k
An interesting BBC radio doc about the morality involved in AI. Worth a listen.
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Someone thinking about the future today might examine the last few years to gauge the current rate of advancement
the idea of thinking "everything has been done. What else can there be?" rings true with me sometimes
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stop thinking of robots. A robot is a container for AI
note to self!
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much more should change in the coming decades than we intuitively expect.
Where do global warming and the predicted ecological disasters that we face sit in this prediction?
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exponential growth isn’t totally smooth and uniform
"In other words, there’s exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth." Kurzweil
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moving increasingly quickly
at an exponential rate?
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law of accelerating returns
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we may be as blown away by 2030 as our 1750 guy was by 2015
Do we experience this DPU effect if we are experiencing the change within our lifetime or is it so gradual, it in turn becomes natural and normalized technological progression?
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